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- Javanmard, Younes, et al.
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Sharp entanglement thresholds in the logarithmic negativity of disjoint blocks in the transverse-field Ising chain
- 2018
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In: New Journal of Physics. - : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 1367-2630. ; 20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Entanglement has developed into an essential concept for the characterization of phases and phase transitions in ground states of quantum many-body systems. In this work we use the logarithmic negativity to study the spatial entanglement structure in the transverse-field Ising chain both in the ground state and at nonzero temperatures. Specifically, we investigate the entanglement between two disjoint blocks as a function of their separation, which can be viewed as the entanglement analog of a spatial correlation function. We find sharp entanglement thresholds at a critical distance beyond which the logarithmic negativity vanishes exactly and thus the two blocks become unentangled, which holds even in the presence of long-ranged quantum correlations, i.e., at the system's quantum critical point. Using time-evolving block decimation, we explore this feature as a function of temperature and size of the two blocks and present a simple model to describe our numerical observations.
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